Powershell PSObjects converting to HTML output

[MC2016]

I have the below functions that work with VAMI via REST API. Everything working correctly with the exception of the output to HTML format.

function Get-VAMISettings

{

    $Sessions = @()

    $VAMIDNS = @()

    $Output = @()

    #Get Session ID for each VAMI.

for($i=0; $i -le ($VAMIIPs.Count - 1); $i++)

{

    #Collect all variables needed to get VAMI Session.

    $IP = $VAMIIPs[$i]

    $User = $VAMIUsers[$i]

    $Password = $VAMIPasswords[$i]

    #Call function to get session for VAMI. Store  all VAMI Session IDs in $Sessions Variable

    $Sessions += Get-VAMISession

}

## Call functions

$VAMIDNS = Get-VAMIDNSServer

$Output += $VAMIDNS | ConvertTo-HTML -Fragment -AS Table  -PreContent "<H2>VAMI DNS Servers</h2>" | out-string

Return $Output

}

function Get-VAMIDNSServer

{

    $Type = "application/json"

    for($i=0; $i -le ($VAMIIPs.Count -1); $i++)

    {

        $IP = $VAMIIPs[$i]

        $BaseURL = "https://" + $ip + "/rest/"

        $URI = $BaseURL+"appliance/networking/dns/servers"

        $Session = @{

            ‘vmware-api-session-id’ = $Sessions[$i]

            }

            Try

            {

             $DNStmp = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri $URI -TimeoutSec 100 -Headers $Session -ContentType $Type -SkipCertificateCheck

             $DNSservers = $DNStmp.value.servers

             #Object array for all DNS Servers.

             $DNSObj = New-Object PSObject -Property @{

                    VAMIIP     = $IP

                    DNSServers  = $DNSservers

                }

            }# End Try Statement

            Catch

            {

            $_.Exception.ToString()

            $error[0] | Format-List -Force

            } #End catch statement.

            $VAMIDNS += $DNSObj

    } #End For Loop

    #$VAMIDNS += $DNSObj

    return $VAMIDNS, $DNSObj

}

When Get-VAMIDNSServers returns $VAMIDNS it output the below as expected in Get-VAMISettings function.

DNSServers                                                     VAMIIP

----------                                                     ------

{**.**.**.225}                                               **.**.**.54

{**.**.**.218, ***.**.**.156, **.**.***.225, **.***.**.227} **.**.**.100

{**.***.**.218}                                                **.**.**.101

{**.**.**.218}                                                **.**.**.102

{**.**.**.218}                                                **.**.**.102

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Unfortunately this doesn't translate to html when using "ConvertTo-HTML"

[quote] $Output += $VAMIDNS | ConvertTo-HTML -Fragment -AS Table  -PreContent "<H2>VAMI DNS Servers</h2>" | out-string [/quote]

Above Command gives me "System.Object" instead of DNS servers in table. Below is output for example.

<H2>VAMI DNS Servers</h2>

<table>

<colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup>

<tr><th>VAMIIP</th><th>DNSServers</th></tr>

<tr><td>********.54</td><td>System.Object[]</td></tr>

<tr><td>**********.100</td><td>System.Object[]</td></tr>

<tr><td>*************101</td><td>System.Object[]</td></tr>

<tr><td>***********102</td><td>System.Object[]</td></tr>

</table>

Anyone have any suggestion on how to get correct output to HTML format?

[LucD]

That happens because an element in the table you pass to ConvertTo-Html is itself an array.

The cmdlet doesn't know how to convert that to HTML, hence the indication System.Object[] in the HTML.

Btw, I'm not sure where you got that Get-VAMDnsServer function, but the least I can say, it requires some work.

Why do you return 2 objects from that function?

You already stored $DNSObj in $VAMIDNS, so why return it separately?